Welcome to my obsession with Pinterest, also known as my new Powerful Pinterest Marketing series, The PPM Series for short. The more I learn about this amazing enigma of a social media platform, the more potential I can see it has. Over the coming weeks, this series will explore the key areas of Pinterest and how we can unlock its potential for your business. Pinterest is a very specific and particular platform in its audience and function, so it can be used in [...]
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I find online marketing fascinating, I'm sure you'll agree that there are not many professions where you must combine so many different skills and abilities to reach a goal. Psychology, art and design, programming, writing, philosophy, leadership and management, the list goes on. I am obsessed with figuring out how marketers utilise these skills to make money online. By reverse-engineering their specific techniques I hope to reveal amazing online marketing strategies that I can write about and deliver directly to you in [...]
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A new lease of life Learning I am heavily on the autistic spectrum was devastating and liberating. While it answered a lot of questions about the way I am, it was painful to think that I can't change the situation. Knowing that this is just how life will be from now on felt depressing. As many as 1 in 68 (1.6 %) 8-year-old children receive an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis , with a male:female ratio of 4:1. This is my story of how I [...]
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Don’t you think it is getting really annoying having to handle a fistful of social media profiles everytime you want to give your contact details to a potential client? You have to get them printed on business cards, you have to place them in email footers and all over your website. When fresh clients contact you, they are bombarded with your social profiles. If anything changes, such as changing a profile or adding a new one you have to reprint business cards and [...]
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Having talent is nothing rare, talent is everywhere, everybody has talent. What makes a person successful is hard work and consistency. But to be a hard worker you have to consistently put that effort in day after day, even when you don’t want to. The only way I know how to do that is to force a mindset shift into “the zone”. You know the one, the mindset where you’re heavily focused and your mind is on the right track, nothing is distracting you, [...]
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As a freelance writer and a blogger, I find that one of my biggest obstacles is learning how to write faster. Maybe this is the same for you too? It is easy to write down a bunch of sentences, however, I want my content to be useful interesting and fluff-talk-free while maintaining my deadlines. I find this difficult as I’m certainly a slow worker. Alas! I might not be Stephen King incarnate yet, but I have strung together a fair few tips that I [...]
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Let’s get to the point, looking for freelance writing jobs can SUCK! There is just so much garbage out there and if you only have a few places to look then you’re really not going to hit the ground running as a freelance writer. Discovering great places to find freelance writing jobs is what took me from being frustrated and broke to being able to consistently earn a comfortable income every month. In this list I’m going to break down a bucket load [...]
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Finding well-paying online article writing jobs for beginners is often quite a taxing endeavour to accomplish, especially when you have no formal qualifications, like me. I was at the end of my tether after being on a hiatus from online work for around a year. I had all but given up on my online activities and I had recently learned I had high functioning autism. You can read about how I successfully dealt with these issues in my previous post on how [...]
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Since I can remember, I’ve struggled with my ability to work effectively. If you’re like me, then you already feel just how frustrating it is. The problem was never that I was intentionally lazy, or that I didn’t want to work, I just felt unable to actually put my thoughts into practice, y’know? It is a refreshing feeling to be free and know that I have now cracked it. The solution wasn’t easy to discover, heck, I’ve been trying my whole life. The [...]
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Keyword Research is often the core foundation of any online marketing campaign. Whether that is researching a new product to invest in or understanding your readers' and buyers' interests in more detail. Whatever you're using the research for, there are a vast amount of applications and uses for it which can help improve your business and your understanding of user intent. The success of a campaign is often dependent on the quality of keyword research done. I picked out the top two keyword research [...]
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